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During September, the theme for the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½â€™s year-long Resonate Festival for Coventry’s City of Culture year was Words and Voices. The Connecting Cultures GRP was responsible for organising the month’s events, and our first Words and Voices event was all about poetry, asking ‘Where does poetry take you?’, ‘How can a poem unlock your city’s past, present and future?’ and ‘How do you tell your stories through poetry?’. Here some of the contributors and partners who took part in that event tell us about what poetry means to them and how the event celebrated all forms of poetry.

The Warwick Institute of Engagement (WIE) is seeking to support current staff and students to develop ongoing strategic relationships with local, regional, and national public partners. In time, these relationships will lead to co-production of, and collaboration in, research projects, innovation programmes and strategy, as well as collaboration on the discussion of research outcomes and the co-organisation of public engagement events.

Awards of up to £3,000 will be available, to support activities that focus on building new, or strengthening existing, relationships, with local, regional, and national community partners, groups or organisations.

We've been working hard with our Fellows to overhaul our online training resources, with a dedicated "Festival" home page for staff, PG and UG students.

The British Science Association (BSA) has announced the winners of its prestigious Award Lecture series for 2021. Seven of the top early career researchers, all based in the UK, have been recognised for their cutting-edge work and committed public engagement efforts - including Laura Lammasniemi, ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½, winner for social sciences! Congratulations Laura!